{"id":1609434,"date":"2022-08-16T18:16:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609434"},"modified":"2022-08-16T18:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:16:38","slug":"liz-cheney-is-no-martyr-just-another-rich-entitled-member-of-the-d-c-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-is-no-martyr-just-another-rich-entitled-member-of-the-d-c-establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney Is No Martyr. Just Another Rich, Entitled Member Of The D.C. Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliz-cheney-is-no-martyr-just-another-rich-entitled-member-of-the-d-c-establishment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609434&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Liz Cheney is expected to lose by at least 20 points in today\u2019s primary in Wyoming. But she doesn\u2019t seem to really care. Long known in D.C. circles as hating interactions with Americans outside the beltway, representing Wyoming voters was not something she ever considered a particularly important aspect of her role in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to the corporate media and the D.C. establishment, one would think Cheney is history\u2019s greatest hero, a political martyr who put \u201cprinciple over party,\u201d and who courageously stood up against Republican voters and their strong support of the party\u2019s most recent president, support which Beltway insiders find unseemly.<\/p>\n<p>Such simplistic and error-ridden sound bites work well in D.C., but not in the rest of America. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/01\/cnn-tried-to-find-people-in-wyoming-who-like-liz-cheney-it-didnt-go-well\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN went to Wyoming to defend Cheney<\/a> as \u201cUpholding the rule of law, defending the Constitution,\u201d referring to her work on the Jan. 6 show trial. Wyoming voter Brett Kupec made short shrift of the talking point. \u201cIf that was the \u2018rule of law,\u2019 why doesn\u2019t [Trump] have a defense team in that courtroom?\u201d Kupec said. \u201cThat ain\u2019t the rule of law. That\u2019s a kangaroo court. That\u2019s not the Wyoming way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there\u2019s nothing heroic about denying political enemies due process, or helping your constituents\u2019 political opponents with their Stalinist show trials. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/03\/the-only-principle-never-trumpers-care-about-in-candidates-like-peter-meijer-is-trump-hatred\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Seething hatred of Trump is not a principle<\/a>, or at least certainly not one worth defending at the expense of the republic and its health.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s not the hero that her media fans claim her to be. She\u2019s also not a martyr. This is not some brave Wyomingite who stood strong on principle after she failed to persuade her constituents to follow her. Cheney has always used Wyoming and the Republican Party for personal ambition and to push discredited and politically toxic foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>She first tried to force herself onto Wyomingites in 2014, surprising actual Wyoming resident Mike Enzi by announcing her plan to primary him for the U.S. Senate seat. Her Facebook post announcing her run was <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/05\/12\/liz-cheney-republican-house-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">geotagged from her actual home in McLean, Virginia<\/a>, a place populated by government bureaucrats, defense contractors, and lobbyists. The jeans <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/116120\/liz-cheneys-wyoming-flame-out-was-result-her-cable-tv-style\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she wore to pretend<\/a> she understood Wyoming values stained her hands blue because they were so new. She had to withdraw from that race in disgrace, but was elected to the U.S. House in 2016 after Rep. Cynthia Lummis resigned. She rarely went \u201chome\u201d to Wyoming, and was notorious for canceling events or simply not showing up to them.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney quickly kneecapped Cathy McMorris Rogers to become GOP conference chair, but was ousted within years from that position. It wasn\u2019t just that she joined Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi\u2019s plot to impeach President Donald Trump, but that she failed to be an effective conference chair, exploiting it for personal gain. Unlike McMorris Rogers, her predecessor, or her successor Elise Stefanik, Cheney didn\u2019t raise meaningful money for other members. <\/p>\n<p>Cheney <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/06\/cheney-never-apologized-for-spreading-false-russian-bounty-story-which-was-used-against-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped spread false rumors<\/a> about Russians paying bounties in Afghanistan, a story that was widely used by Republican opponents to harm Trump and his supporters. But she stood by and did little to nothing when Biden led the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney is not a hero, and not a martyr, but a privileged child of establishment D.C., so reliant on her family name that her closing ad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meetthepressblog\/dick-cheney-slams-trump-new-tv-ad-daughter-liz-cheney-rcna41606\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used the dynasty<\/a> she was born into as a crutch.<\/p>\n<p>The media\u2019s Joan of Arc-esque framing has already been in the works for quite some time, after Cheney became a break-out star in this summer\u2019s blockbuster TV hit \u2014 the Jan. 6 House committee hearings (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2022-07-27\/whats-left-for-the-jan-6-committee-to-look-into\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">season two airs<\/a>\u00a0in September) \u2014 and vowed to do everything in her power to block Trump from becoming president ever again. A New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/liz-cheney-trump-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">profile<\/a>\u00a0actually described Cheney\u2019s likely primary loss as \u201cher martyrdom\u201d and \u201ca proving ground for her new crusade.\u201d Another piece by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-political-scene\/liz-cheneys-kamikaze-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>\u00a0makes Cheney sound like one of the 300 Spartans who gave their lives defending Greece in the Battle of Thermopylae. Democrat and actor Alec Baldwin is actually\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/3603880-alec-baldwin-compares-liz-cheney-to-an-american-navalny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calling Cheney<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cNalvany of our current political culture.\u201d And a Washington Post article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/15\/liz-cheneys-political-life-is-likely-ending-just-beginning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hints<\/a>\u00a0at a possible presidential run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing donors have come out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/09\/us\/politics\/liz-cheney-jan-6.html?searchResultPosition=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in droves<\/a>\u00a0to fill Cheney\u2019s campaign coffers. Cheney\u2019s campaign\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/houston\/2022\/08\/16\/liz-cheney-fundraises-houston-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received $950,000 in contributions<\/a>\u00a0from Texas bigwigs alone. She\u2019s raised\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2022\/08\/15\/cheney-facing-gop-music-in-wyoming-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">triple<\/a>\u00a0the amount of her opponent, in the tens of millions of dollars. And yet no one is asking genuine questions about why the polls show Cheney losing by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwyo.edu\/uw\/news\/2022\/08\/uw-survey-finds-hageman-leading-cheney-in-wyoming-gop-primary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly 30 points<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Beltway elites should take off their Trump Derangement Syndrome-colored glasses and talk to the average Wyoming voter and discover why Cheney\u2019s impending canonization may be a bit premature. Republicans in Wyoming are concerned about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/08\/16\/opinion\/16focusgroup-Wyoming-primary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inflation and high energy prices<\/a>. They want someone who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2022\/08\/15\/wyoming-republicans-cheney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">works for the state of Wyoming and its constituents<\/a>\u00a0and represents conservative values. And yes, they agree with the vast majority of Republican voters that Trump was a very good president who deserves credit for fighting the D.C. establishment that is destroying the country. They <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1558297609126744065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hate Cheney\u2019s foreign policy<\/a> and what it has done to national security.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Americans and their desires are obstacles in the mind of the D.C. beltway. That\u2019s why, after Cheney\u2019s primary loss today, they\u2019ll start grooming her for a presidential run (\u201cCheney and a small but influential bloc of anti-Trump Republicans have decided that there must be a 2024 candidate who will run as an unabashed opponent of both the ex-president and other contenders who spew his mistruths about the 2020 election,\u201d the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/15\/liz-cheneys-political-life-is-likely-ending-just-beginning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Post reports<\/a>). She\u2019ll be offered multi-million-dollar book deals, embark on a \u201cTrump Apology\u201d speaking tour, and hobnob with Never-Trump elites at Georgetown cocktail parties. Cheney will profit handsomely from these new ventures \u2014 her net worth is already estimated at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/video\/much-liz-cheney-worth-113011842.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$15 million<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 as her political capital increases and donors from the left and the right rally to her cause.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney didn\u2019t sacrifice anything by going after Trump and losing her House seat. With media contracts, book deals, and plum positions in the military-industrial complex, she\u2019ll continually be met with thunderous applause by the D.C. establishment that\u2019s grown increasingly detached from Americans. She\u2019s no martyr. <\/p>\n<p><em>The Federalist\u2019s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Victoria Marshall is a staff writer at The Federalist. Her writing has been featured in the New York Post, National Review, and Townhall. 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